MetaMorph I

2022

h = 142 cm, weight: ca.1300 kg

CNC milled Chinese Bluestone

exhibited on the grounds of Oil Street Art Space

Based on a 3D scan of a 16th – 17th Century, late Ming dynasty, Lingbi rock from Lingbi in Anhui province.The work is created through digitally carving several elements of the original 3D-scanned rock. In the second step, the elements are re-composed through placing them vertically on top of each other. They are connected with several small tendril-like structures emerging at times from the rock. The work has two very different characters. The first reassembles a slender silhouette in sequential S-shaped curvature and counter curvatures.The surface dominates in this state. The other is dominated by the large incision cutting through the upper part of the rock, dissolving the solid silhouette,opening the structure and revealing the volume of the rock. The meta-morph is 142 cm in height and weights around 1300 kg. The original stone is 50 cm in height and weights about 15 kg.